But science is poison! All you need to cure these diseases is an ALL NATURAL diet. Why, it can even cure autisim! *twitch*

/In all seriousness, though, screw you, Jenny McCarthy, for helping launch this damn shit mainstream._________________"No, but evil is still being --Is having reason-- Being reasonable! Mousie understands? Is always being reason. Is punishing world for not being... Like in head. Is always reason. World should be different, is reason."
-Ed, from Digger

Silk Road has been shut down. They (joint operation - DEA, FBI, Homeland Security, etc) have seized the servers and arrested the operator._________________“Yields falsehood when preceded by its quotation”
yields falsehood when preceded by its quotation.

National Park Officials closed down the educational Claude Moore Colonial Farm near the CIA in McLean, Va., even though the federal government doesn't fund or staff the park popular with children and schools. Just because the privately-operated park is on Park Service land, making the federal government simply its landlord, the agency decided to close it.

A Claude Moore Colonial Farm official said that the privately-funded staff is on the job Wednesday, but barred from letting anybody visit the historically accurate buildings or animals. Anna Eberly, the managing director, sent out an email decrying the decision and rude National Park Service staff handling the closure.

Pointing to Park Service claims that parks have to be closed because the agency can’t afford staff during the government closure, Eberly wrote: “What utter crap. We have operated the Farm successfully for 32 years after the NPS cut the Farm from its budget in 1980 and are fully staffed and prepared to open today. But there are barricades at the Pavilions and entrance to the Farm. And if you were to park on the grass and visit on your own, you run the risk of being arrested. Of course, that will cost the NPS staff salaries to police the Farm against intruders while leaving it open will cost them nothing.”

I checked a map. It looks like the private operation is surrounded entirely by national park lands, depending on park entrances and access roads. All of which would conceivably be closed as part of closing national parks during the shutdown. Doesn't seem unreasonable to me.

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I wonder how that squares with easement laws. If a person's house was surrounded by a national park with a road through the park for access, would they be trapped in or out of their home for the duration?

A new Tom Hanks movie says Captain Phillips is the hero who saved his men when pirates attacked...but now a $50million lawsuit says he risked their lives

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The ship’s Captain portrayed by Tom Hanks in a forthcoming Hollywood movie is at the centre of a $50million lawsuit – brought by the very men whose lives he is credited with saving.

According to legal papers seen by MailOnline, the true story of the Maersk Alabama – the US cargo vessel captured by Somali pirates in the Gulf of Aden four years ago – is not a simple narrative of Captain Richard Phillips’s personal sacrifice in the face of extreme danger.

Instead it is a story of corporate greed and hubris, in which Phillips captained his ship against more than seven maritime warnings and his own men's pleas, sailing deep into waters notorious for pirate attack.

Some bullet points:

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Two pirate attacks and more than 7 warnings went ignored as Phillips captained the Maersk Alabama deep into the danger zone

Claim he boasted he 'wasn't scared of pirates'

Ships told to sail no closer than 680miles from the Somali coast; the Maersk was just 270miles from it when pirates seized it on 8 April 2009

Crew members 'galled' by seeing Phillips feted a hero in Hollywood and the White House

Alright, so I finished my application and clicked submit - only to have an error pop up. Called the suggested number, which said they're not actually taking online submissions right now, and said if I wanted a paper app mailed to me I could request one. Wait time is 30 minutes, though, and I don't have time for that.

I don't get why they don't have a "Print your application or request a physical application" via the website._________________::lesser crisis mode::

A woman driving a black Lexus tried to ram through a White House barricade Thursday, then led police on a chase that ended in gunfire outside the Capitol, witnesses and officials said.

Tourists watched the shooting unfold on Constitution Avenue outside the Capitol as lawmakers inside debated how to end a government shutdown. Police quickly locked down the entire complex for about an hour, and both houses of Congress went into recess.

This story is sounding more and more bizarre. A woman, driving what seems to be a $60,000 or $70,000 car with a baby in the back tries to ram the gates of the White House, resulting in her being shot by police, all in a very crowded area.

How completely and utterly nutterly.

Edit: To cap it all off, it appears the woman was forced over on Constitution Avenue, abandoned her vehicle, and was shot by the Secret Service while attempting to escape on foot?_________________Juke Joint Jezebel